Special Reports

Jake Leffew & Jack Brook/The Santiago Times Staff The controversial multi-billion dollar Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project has access to Santiago’s most important rivers, and its construction has thrust one of the nation’s toughest female journalists […]

JACK BROOK & JAKE LEFFEW The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – Many of Chile’s most recognizable environmental activists and more than a thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the municipal building of Puente Alto on […]

By Por Fausto Triana SANTIAGO – The truth about the cause of death of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda seems to be imminent, after international scientific tests were made, an idea that seduces the family […]

GUATEMALA CITY – Thousands of patients with advanced illnesses in Guatemala suffer unnecessarily from severe pain because they cannot get appropriate pain medications, Human Rights Watch said in a latest report. The 62-page report, “‘Punishing […]

SANTIAGO – Representatives of the Journalists’ School of Chile will commemorate 100 years of La Nación with its former employees, and will not take part in the official celebration organized by the now privatized newspaper. […]

An embezzlement network uncovered within Chile’s prized police shows that corruption can corrode even the most trusted of Latin America’s security institutions. InSight Crime puts together a selection of some of the region’s best — […]

Student in Chile have been protesting for over a decade to overturn inequality within the educational system. By Aneeta Akhurst Aneeta writes, produces and voices original, short web documentaries for Discovery Digital Networks. She is […]